Jesus with-out/less Roman Empire

Here's what I'm thinking -- say Ceasar loses at Pharsalus, and Egypt remains a Roman puppet state (not province); Antipater (Herod's dad) as Pompey's ally still becomes king in Judea et el.

Where does the Jewish nation go from there, up to the time of (OTL birth and life of) Jesus? Can a similar Jewish sect still emerge, and how far could it get with a less centralized/authoritarian Rome? To start, there probably won't be an imperial census that, otl, was the reason Jeshia was born in Bethlehem...
 
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No Unified Empire Providing These Fancy Roads then No Unified Christanity or Political Authority To Unify From Brittania to Egypt.
 
Did Christianity really depend on Roman roads to spread? I mean, with or without Rome there would still have been ships sailing all over the Mediterrenean, as well as trade routes linking Jerusalem with Alexandria, Petra, Antioch, Ephesus, Babylon, etc.
 
Any Jesus character is butterflied, and without Roman domination there is no rebellious undertone making it popular.
 
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